Re: Essential stuff in /usr/doc (Was Re: Installing things into a...)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

renfro@tntech.edu wrote:

> > I think I'll simply check $ENV{SERVER_NAME} and use it if
> > defined.  That will cover a good proportion of cases anyway.
> 
> Um, just a suggestion, but why not just return a page via http that has no
> hostname explicitly specified, so that all links and hrefs in it are
> relative? i.e., instead of returning a URL of the form
> http://SERVER_NAME/doc/mh-book, just return /doc/mh-book
> 
> Works for most of my applications, at least.

Man, I thought that _didn't_ work for cgi-bin calls, but it does!
Must have made a mistake when I tested it.
Now that's embarassing. 

Thanks.  I don't see a problem with this, so I'll do it.

Peter